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for Mezzo-Soprano or Soprano with Piano Accompaniment A Song-cycle based upon
the poems of e.e. cummings
Music by Carol Worthey
Words by e.e. cummings
Performance Time 17:25 (for 4 songs)
Finalist International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM)
Search for New Music
Miriam Gideon Prize
2004
The following songs form this song cycle, in this order:
Buffalo Bill's The vibrant cowboy is "defunct"--"how do you like your
blue-eyed boy Mister Death?" This tour-de-force opener uses
glissandos and other vocal effects to produce a bravura,
bittersweet portrait of the legendary showman. The opening
instruction for the piano indicates "Nostalgia for the
prairie, for the Old West that maybe never was." Performance Time: 1:23
anyone lived in a pretty how town A powerful and yet tender evocation of a town full of
lives of "quiet desperation" where children forget to
remember, this virtuosic song plays with variations and
repetitive fragments in a sing-song manner, alternating
monotony with surprise. Performance Time: 6:03
a wind has blown the rain away and blown This stark, powerful picture of devastating loss was
derived from a song originally written the day after John F.
Kennedy's assassination and is dedicated to his memory. The
singer evokes the very wind. The "petal of somewhere" title
comes from this poem. Performance Time: 4:10
a wind has blown the rain away and blown (Valerie Miller, Vocal)
somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond A lyrical love poem celebrating the intimacy and
push-and-pull of control versus surrender in an intense
relationship. This is one of the most beautiful of e.e.
cummings many love poems. The melody and harmonies are
tender and expressive, a bit more tonal than the preceding
song settings, misted with subtle dissonances and nuances.
This is a pretty song, on purpose. Performance Time: 5:49
